Ssd

[Din]

Sounds cheesy but im well impressed with my SSD. Any new computer has a nice boot time but always stupidly dropped after a few months yet I think my SSD may have got a few seconds slower if that.

Stupidly good and would never go without now.

 

[mantadog]

SSD are indeed the future. They do degrade with age though, but in a different way to HDD's. The reason a HDD slows down is that you constantly add more little files to be loaded at startup. Things like Skype, email, antivirus, steam and origin, GPU control software, iTunes etc all end up meaning it just takes the HDD longer to load the files. SSD's are quick enough to cope with this and able to access data stored anywhere on the drive just as quick as any other. HDD's can get a bit confused when you ask them to do 20 things at once, SSD not so much.

Anyway yes everyone should have a SSD if they possibly can.

 

[Din]

SSD are indeed the future. They do degrade with age though, but in a different way to HDD's. The reason a HDD slows down is that you constantly add more little files to be loaded at startup. Things like Skype, email, antivirus, steam and origin, GPU control software, iTunes etc all end up meaning it just takes the HDD longer to load the files. SSD's are quick enough to cope with this and able to access data stored anywhere on the drive just as quick as any other. HDD's can get a bit confused when you ask them to do 20 things at once, SSD not so much.

Anyway yes everyone should have a SSD if they possibly can.

I just regret not having the funds to get a larger one, I have a 120GB so I only have like win OS, MS office , Adobe suite on it really. everything else like steam and stuff im not bothered about just gets my HDD. However it has made me hate my Mac as it makes the boot feel painfully slow now.

 

[mantadog]

a 120 gig can get cramped but the costs are at least coming down. it wasn't so long ago you had to decide between a 64GB for the OS only or really shell out for the 120GB model, just having the OS on a SSD makes everything run much sweeter anyway.

 

[CB1]

I'm glad I got an SSD at the time I built my new rig a month ago. I was planning on waiting but thought, be as well just do it all at one time, and so glad I did. It takes longer for my monitor to turn on than it does for my computer to boot! Just waiting until next year possibly to get one bigger than 120GB, currently a little too expensive to go much bigger than a 250GB for me.